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Mr Love and Justice
Colin MacInnes
An Allison & Busby Classic - a new reissue
Frankie Love, new to his profession as a ponce, seems to run his illegal life on strictly fair principles. Ted Justice, recently appointed member of the vice squad, finds his upholding of the law complicated by love for his girl...
Love is...
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City of Spades
Colin MacInnes
London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien motherland. Liberal England is about to discover the legacy of Empire. And when Montgomery Pew, assistant welfare officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune, re...
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Falstaff
Robert Nye
An Allison & Busby Classic - new reissue
Expansive, sprawling, unruly and oversized - like his stomach and everything about him, the memoirs of the most beloved comic figure in the history of literature take the unsuspecting reader into the world of a character so audacious that, app...
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The Late Mr Shakespeare
Robert Nye
An Allison & Busby Classic - new reissue
‘By the time I have finished I think you will have to admit it. There is no man or woman alive in the world who knows more than old Pickleherring about the late Mr Shakespeare.’
From a dingy attic above a brothel in Restoration ...
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Alfie
Bill Naughton
Alfie’s not really a bad guy. It’s just that he has this overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that ‘birds’ are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There’s Ruby - ‘A lust box in beautiful condition’; Clare - ‘You’re ...
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